Category: 2008 Blog 1

Belated Happy New Year to everyone on ims. It's still summer over here and I've been taking a very extended break and haven't been around.

I''m now back in harness at work and look forward to catching up on the tracks I've missed. In the coming weeks I will be posting some acoustic tracks I recorded just before Christmas. Although I love playing in the one-man band context, it's not a way to promote one's own material. So I've decided to try the "acoustic route" with a view to maybe picking up some pub/club work and hopefully getting some festival work. I'm told we have a big festival circuit out here where even someone with my limited talents might get a gig in the tent down the back alley.

The tracks are a combination of new tracks, some collabs with Lex Zaleta and some of the track from my CD "NIC" which I've pared back to acoustic versions.

I recorded the CD in one day and pretty well did it as I would "live" playing guitar and singing at the same time. So there are some forgotten lyrics, some bum chord changes and you probably wouldn't want to put a metronome on any of the tracks. There were 16 tracks recorded, but one, Unvictorian Victoria, has some real guitar issues and will probably be deleted from the final CD.

I didn't record the CD for sale. I really did it for promotion. I'll be getting a short run pressed for distribution to community radio stations and promoters ets. I'll make all of the tracks available for free download in here.

Hope to catch up with everyone in coming days/weeks/months.

BTW many thanks for all the kind birthday wishes yesterday. Thanks for rubbing in the fact that I'm an old man and getting older.

Cheers to all


Brian